Books: Ironical Chronicle

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And always, as a kind of counterpoint, there were the attacks on the Roosevelts. One of the gentler assaults, which Author Bendiner wisely reprints, is a priceless parody of Eleanor's "My Day" column by Westbrook Pegler:

"Yesterday morning I took a train to New York City and sat beside a gentleman who was reading the 1937 report of the International Recording Secretary of the World Home Economics and Children's Aptitude and Recreation Foundation of which my good friend, Dr. Mary McTwaddle, formerly of Vassar, is the American delegate. This aroused my interest and I ventured to remark that I had once had the pleasure of entertaining a group of young people who were deeply concerned with the neglected problem of the Unmarried Father. It turned out that the gentleman himself was an unmarried father so we had a very interesting chat until he got off at Metuchen."

Among other things, this book is recommended for Wall Street board rooms. It must be the first ironical chronicle of those times that does not even mention such grim facts as G.M. at 8 and Anaconda at 4.